On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Lot of volunteers are using email to communicate when they discuss > wikimedia related issues. Even if it's not a big problem to use > personal email there, lot of people, especially administrators do not > want to uncover their personal email. Lot of them even have a special > private mail for wikipedia purposes. Although wikimedia has own email > server on wikimedia domain, it's being given to paid staff only, so > question is if it would be worth of having an email service for > volunteers who request it (it should be probably limited to users who > match some criteria) or just a forward service which can help us to > get our personal email hidden (this would not eat space and would be > very cheap). I understand that people from foundation might have > concerns that volunteers with wikimedia.org emails could cause some > troubles or people might be in thought they are employees, so why not > to use some another domain, like wmflabs.org for developers and > wikipedia.org for wikipedians for example (other domains for > respective projects). What do you think? >
We've discussed giving out referrers to people with LDAP accounts (labs, git, etc) at either @wmflabs.org or @users.mediawiki.org. I don't know what the final decision was regarding that though. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
